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Omar Khayyam

Omar Khayyam

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Status

Released

Release Date

Aug 23, 1957

Runtime

1h 41m

Genres

Adventure, Romance

User Score

50%

Original Title

Omar Khayyam

Production Companies

Paramount Pictures

Director

William Dieterle

Description

Omar Khayyam was one of the greatest Persian poets. He was also a brilliant mathematician. Though his quatrains were written in the 11th century, they are still popular the world over. The details of his life are unknown, so this movie invents a biography for him and includes in it his real achievements - the invention of a new calendar and the penning of those epigrammatic poems. This film has him romancing a sultan's bride and foiling the assassin sect's plot to kill the sultan's son.